GeoScienceWorld: new ebook platform

This may be of interest to chemists.

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The Betty and Gordon Moore Library is pleased to announce that we now have access to the 2015-16 ebook collections in earth sciences via the GeoScienceWorld platform.

Our access currently includes over 100 titles from leading society publishers including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of London and the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The collection will grow as forthcoming titles are added. Here are a few of the titles currently available (click on the covers to access the ebooks):

     

   

Titles are available to read online and download as pdfs on a DRM-free basis. Access to the GeoScienceWorld platform is available here (requires Raven off campus). Records for individual titles have also been added to LibrarySearch.

If you have any queries or comments about GeoScienceWorld ebooks please contact Jayne and Lindsay in the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

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MyBook from Brill: affordable print-on-demand paperbacks

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Brill’s new MyBook program, available on the BrillOnline Books and Journals platform, enables Cambridge-registered users to purchase an affordable print-on-demand paperback copy of any book purchased as an ebook by the University, for their personal use.

MyBook has a fixed price of €25.00 / $25.00 per copy, and is printed in black and white. Brill will ship your copy free of charge, though VAT will be added where applicable.

Further information about the MyBook program is available here. Eligible titles (i.e. ebooks purchased by the University) can be found on BrillOnline and will display a MyBook purchase button. Brill ebooks are also listed in LibrarySearch.

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Science, Technology and Medical ebooks now on De Gruyter Online

This looks like a great ebook collection for chemistry and related disciplines.

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The Betty and Gordon Moore Library is pleased to announce, that in addition to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences titles already available to Cambridge users on De Gruyter Online, we now have access to ebooks in the following branches of the Sciences:

• Chemistry
• Computer Sciences
• Engineering
• Geosciences
• Industrial Chemistry
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics
• Materials Sciences
• Medicine
• Pharmacy
• Physics

De Gruyter Online science collections also includes titles published by its partner presses, such as Harvard University Press, Birkhäuser, Böhlau, and Transcript Verlag.

Here is a very small selection of STM titles:

           

Records will be added to LibrarySearch in the near future; meanwhile you can search for and access all De Gruyter Online titles via the De Gruyter Online platform (requires a Raven login off-campus). All of these titles are DRM free and allow unlimited concurrent access. You can download, print or save chapter PDFs and…

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IOP ebooks – Release 2

This may be of interest to chemists too.

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The Betty and Gordon Moore Library is pleased to announce that ‘Release 2’ of IOP Expanding Physics and IOP Concise Physics is now available for registered Cambridge staff and students.These 60 new titles complement the existing access to the 35 ‘Release 1’ titles, already available. These titles are useful for both undergraduates and researchers.

IOP ebooks allow unlimited concurrent usage and are available on and off campus (with a Raven login). The titles are published in HTML, PDF, and EPUB formats, and can be downloaded or read online.

The new titles will very shortly be available in LibrarySearch and you can also access them from the supplier platform. You can also find a list of titles in the Release 2 collection here. (The catalogue of ‘Release 1’ titles is also available from here.)

         

The ebooks@cambridge team welcome queries or comments on these new titles…

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Cambridge University Press downtime : 26 June 2016

Electronic Collection Management

The following platforms will all be unavailable on Sunday 26th June 2016 for 4 hours between 09:00 AM BST and 13:00 BST.

Cambridge Journals Online (CJO)

Cambridge Books Online (CBO)

Cambridge Histories Online (CHO)

Cambridge Companions Online (CCO)

Shakespeare Survey Online (SSO)

University Publishing Online (UPO)

This essential maintenance is to test the performance of systems ahead of the launch of a new academic platform later this year

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New ebook titles – May 2016

There are a few chemistry titles included here!

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Here is a selection of the titles added to the ebooks@cambridge collection during May. These titles were purchased by, or on behalf of, department and faculty libraries within the University of Cambridge and by the University Library.

Click on the cover image to access the title via our authenticated links.

                                                                                              

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Think. Check. Submit: Find the right journal for your research

Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted journals to publish their research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

Take a look at their video:

You can follow them on Twitter, see also the hashtag #thinkchecksubmit.